Toil and Trouble

Oh, you’re in for a treat! Loved that one.

Leave me and my TBR pile out of this!

Red-Figure Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel) depicting Medea in Chariot c. 400 BCE

Cover of the audiobook No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes

Just finished the absolutely magnificent and heartbreaking No Friend to This House by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social

Could not recommend this highly enough (especially the audiobook, narrated to perfection by the author).

This really does sound like an “everybody wins” situation. 

@maybemockingbird.bsky.social

The Wayward Souls of Avalon - A Cozy Queer Sci-Fi Novel Book one in a Cozy, Sci-Fi Duology following two men as they're caught up in the end of Earth, a trip to Mars, and a budding romance.

Sharing this for a friend who isn’t on Bluesky:

Check out The Wayward Souls of Avalon - A Cozy Queer Sci-Fi Novel by Dragon Bone Publishing

Thanks! 😊

@davidmalki.com Saw you at ECCC and you said my name was familiar, so maybe it was from this?

Hence the name for the medication ephedra, as it gives you a lift.

[not really, but wouldn’t that be funny? 🤣]

I had the Less Than Zero 45 ❤️

Seattle Opera has a sale code for this weekend: TIMOTHEE 🤣

Artist is Wilhelm Eigener (1904 – 1982)

I don’t think I’ve ever seen these before - thank you! I’m obsessed now, too. ❤️

Chuck Tingle and Stephen Graham Jones standing in front of a ECCC screen

Two of the kindest, most talented folks you’ll ever meet, right here. 🩷 🖤

@chucktingle.bsky.social and @sgj.bsky.social

Audiobook “cover” for Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue

Stunning. Speechless. Going to be thinking about this one for a long time. Heavy, epic, and at times - hilarious? Historical fiction at its absolute best.

(and I get to see him at a book talk at our local bookstore on Monday!)

I’m about 1/4 into it and so far blown away.

Goddam she’s photogenic 😻

A selection of several book covers made from StoryGraph to show what I read in February

February StoryGraph wrap-up.

Ooh Dx twinsies! *fist bump*

Nods in current RA flare-up

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe by Van Gogh. He’s as described plus wearing a black hat and green jacket in front of an orange and red wall.

The spouse recreating the Van Gogh self-portrait, with pipe and wearing said ear bandage.

We did this, too.

I did the standard journey backwards. I read a couple novels, THEN I “got to know” Chuck, THEN I read the Tinglers. And each layer just makes me adore and respect this beautiful human even more.

My husband used to work at a global health nonprofit in Seattle. Which one? Oh gosh, I forget what it’s called…

Verily

Pink baby hellebore buds

Punk Cyclamen growing by the uprooted tree stump

The cyclamen and hellebores are up.

Omgoodness!!! 🥰

Oh cozy gothic horror sounds SO lovely right about now! 🖤

And I used the amazon *this time* because it’s for a good cause 🤣

It’s Wednesday, why isn’t she wearing pink?

If you don’t like tofu, you’re likely preparing it wrong.